I've been lurking around here for a while and I can't believe this just happened. Never thought I'd be in the mix of what y'all go through. Why would you offer me a raise to stay, then cancel my vacation?
First off, being a gay man in IT, it's been hard to fight for a good pay, but I've made progress. Because of whats going on in the job sphere, I decided to start shopping around for jobs.
After telling my boss about this, he offers me $10k additional (which I should've already been getting) to stay. Honestly I'm happy with this number and was planning on staying.
The BULLSHIT part which changed my mind is our team meeting this morning. He asks me to stay in the call a few minutes after our meeting ends and says:
“this is totally unrelated to you looking around, but we're going to cancel your PTO. You can reschedule it for later in the year, but right now it's not going to work”. I was planning on going to Jamaica with my BF and already purchased tickets, so you can bet that's not fucking happening.
Really??? LOL ok boss, fuck that noise. I reached back out to the one recruiter who gave me an offer, told her of the raise I was offered, and she brought a counter offer to $12k additional. Honestly, this isn't that big of a difference, but I think I'll take it.
THEY NEED ME MORE THAN I NEED THEM. If you're going to play this game, SO WILL I.
/rant